Re: Attempting to mount Zip causes floppy access (2.2.16)

2000-09-18 Thread Nick Holloway
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:23:13PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:35:24AM +0100, Nick Holloway wrote: > > There are two questions. Firstly, why did the mount process get stuck > > in the kernel, and secondly (and more importantly) what was it doing > > accessing "/dev/

Re: Attempting to mount Zip causes floppy access (2.2.16)

2000-09-17 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Nick. > I have a zip disk which I attempted to mount using the following > fstab entry: > /dev/sda4 /zip vfat noauto,nodev,nosuid,user ===8<=== CUT ===>8=== > The Zip is a bit suspect, as when I attempted to transfer stuff > from a Windows machine, it reported the size as a few Mb

Re: Attempting to mount Zip causes floppy access (2.2.16)

2000-09-16 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:35:24AM +0100, Nick Holloway wrote: > I have a zip disk which I attempted to mount using the following fstab > entry: > > /dev/sda4 /zip vfat noauto,nodev,nosuid,user > > This caused a spew of "bread failed" errors, and the mount process ended > up blocked in "wai

Attempting to mount Zip causes floppy access (2.2.16)

2000-09-16 Thread Nick Holloway
I have a zip disk which I attempted to mount using the following fstab entry: /dev/sda4 /zip vfat noauto,nodev,nosuid,user This caused a spew of "bread failed" errors, and the mount process ended up blocked in "wait_on_buffer". I thought at first that Zip disk had gone to silicon heaven. A